Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Every summer, The Banff Centre welcomes to its programs emerging and established professional artists from across Canada and around the world who create the Banff Summer Arts Festival. Their creative energy and high octane enthusiasm becomes supercharged in the high altitude and brisk mountain air of Banff National Park.

Check out the Music for a Summer Evening series which is a perennial audience favourite featuring the best young emerging and professional musicians from across Canada and around the world.

Your Future Backstage is an opportunity for young musicians aged 10-17 to gain a better sense of the life of a touring performer. Fans of all genres are encouraged to take this backstage tour, learning more about the Winspear Centre’s production facilities, the science of acoustics and audio engineering and the tribulations of life on the road.

Programs can be booked for individuals or groups and are usually offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays in July and on Wednesdays and Thursdays in August. To make a booking, please contact Anne Pasek at 780-401-2553 or apasek@winspearcentre.com

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

One year ago I started Classical Music in Edmonton so that classical music lovers and our musical community had a one-stop-shop for classical concert listings, news and reviews here in Edmonton.

Over 400 concert listings, thousands of visits to the site, hundreds of Twitter followers and tweets later, CME has been a great success! And after collecting web site links for local classical music ensembles and associations who knew there was so much great music going on in Edmonton!

Hopefully this site has helped you to learn more about this great community and I hope you have been to more concerts this year than ever before.

Please let me know how you think CME can be better and keep on sending me your listings! Concert listings for the 2011-2012 season are now being collected so send me an email at classicalmusicinedmonton@gmail.com

EDMONTON — Continuing a partnership of presenting dynamic art in the city core, the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society and The Works Art & Design Festival will feature six days of BEAMS performances at Sir Winston Churchill Square. Admission to all BEAMS events is free.

Sunday, June 25 at 5 p.m. will see MUGBAIT featuring performers Colin Labadie and Dan Brophy, whose previous performances include a stint at Ramshackle Day Parade and an Art’s Birthday celebration at the late, lamented Naked Cybercafe. The duo will be performing a new work, A Monument Unto Myself.

Making its official debut Tuesday, June 28 at 5 p.m. will be the duo Ativan Zoloft, featuring guitarist Bill Damur who will improvise guitar with a series of digital loops ranging from Erik Satie works to Swiss metal.

A double-bill takes place Saturday, July 2 at 5 p.m. with University of Alberta professor Scott Smallwood displaying his affinity for making sound pieces with various kinds of technologies (including non-electronic technologies) based on a personal practice of field recording, listening, and improvisation. Displaying his prowess on the laptop for the second half of the set will be sound artist Wayne Defehr.

The tandem combination continues Sunday July 3 at 5 p.m. with agaperaygunexeriment showing of its own brand of avant-garde expression, followed by Bill Damur leading three other musicians with his Canon for Four Guitars.

On Tuesday, July 5 at noon, closing off the electroacoustic element of The Works will be a performance featuring the BEAMS All-Stars with the Windrow Performance Dancers.

For more information call Don Ross at 780-444-3641 or email him at donross5@telus.net. Also visit www.beams.ca online.

In 2011-12, Da Camera Singers will be celebrating our 50th anniversary! Through the season, we will be partnering with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada, Spiritus Chamber Choir, the Edmonton Junior Children's Choir and Tonus Vivus. Featured works during the season will include the Poulenc Gloria, Carmina Burana, and the Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil.

We welcome auditions for all sections! Auditions will be comprised of a work of your choice and some musicianship testing. An accompanist will be provided.

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As a former performer and teacher, Classical Music in Edmonton allows me to promote the work of local musicians, enable more Edmontonians to attend concerts, and encourage the performance of great music in Edmonton and Northern Alberta.

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